Following Ezra

A heartwarming, intimate, and amusing memoir of a father’s experience raising his autistic son.   When Tom Fields-Meyer’s son Ezra was three and showing early signs of autism, a therapist suggested that the father needed to grieve.   “For what?” Tom asked. The answer: “For the child he didn't turn out to be.”   That moment helped strengthen the author’s resolve to do just the opposite: to love the child Ezra was, a quirky boy with a fascinating and complex mind. Full of tender mom